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ClearPersistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in Indonesia
This book chapter reviews the presence and management of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Indonesia as part of a broader post-pandemic environmental recovery framework that also encompasses microplastic pollution, membrane technology, and biochar industries. Researchers examined how Indonesia's existing regulatory and remediation infrastructure for POPs intersects with emerging plastic pollution challenges.
Defossilizing Chemical Industry as an Integrated Solution for Indonesia's Climate and Pandemic Crisis
This book chapter examines defossilizing the chemical industry as an integrated solution to Indonesia's climate crisis and pandemic recovery, framing it within a broader environmental and technology strategy that also addresses microplastics and persistent organic pollutants. The study argues that transitioning away from fossil-based chemical production can contribute simultaneously to sustainability and post-pandemic resilience.
Utilizing The Potential of Coastal Sand Marginal Land Resources in The Framework to Improve Food Security Post-COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia
This book chapter investigates the potential of coastal sand marginal land resources for improving food security in Indonesia during the post-COVID-19 recovery period, as part of a broader framework also addressing microplastic pollution and environmental management. Researchers examined how underutilized coastal land could be mobilized to support agricultural resilience alongside environmental sustainability goals.
Nature-Based Solution and Regenerative Circular System Design towards Agricultural Land Management Bioremediation: A Review
This review examines nature-based solutions and regenerative circular system design as approaches to agricultural land bioremediation in the context of Indonesia's post-pandemic recovery, situating them within a broader framework that also addresses microplastic pollution and other environmental stressors. Researchers found that integrating circular economy principles with ecological restoration strategies offers promise for sustainable agricultural land management.
Establishing Knowledge Management System to Support the Education System
This book chapter examines Indonesia's post-pandemic recovery, covering topics including environment and technology issues such as waste management, membrane technology, persistent organic pollutants, and microplastics alongside food security and public service development. The volume compiles 19 chapters spanning disaster management, greening strategies, biochar industry, and smart packaging as part of a broader framework for national development after COVID-19.
Innovative Strategies for Microplastic Mitigation in Wastewater
This book chapter proposes the use of biochar-based composite materials as innovative filter media for removing microplastics from wastewater, describing the adsorption mechanisms by which biochar captures plastic particles and the potential to integrate this approach into existing treatment infrastructure.
Role of biochar toward carbon neutrality
This review examines how biochar, a carbon-rich material made from plant waste, can help fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions across agriculture, energy, and construction. While not directly about microplastics, biochar is also used as an environmental cleanup tool that can adsorb pollutants from soil and water, including plastic particles.
The role of biochar in combating microplastic pollution: a bibliometric analysis in environmental contexts
This bibliometric review used network analysis to map the growing body of research on biochar — a charcoal-like material made from burned organic matter — as a tool for countering microplastic contamination in soils and water. Studies reviewed suggest that biochar can restore soil chemistry, improve microbial diversity, and boost crop yields by 30–81% even when microplastic contamination is high. The findings highlight biochar as a practical, low-cost intervention for farmers dealing with microplastic-polluted land.
Insights into the removal of microplastics from water using biochar in the era of COVID-19: A mini review
Researchers reviewed how COVID-19 accelerated microplastic pollution through increased use of disposable plastics, and assessed biochar — a carbon-rich material made by heating organic waste — as a promising low-cost adsorbent for removing microplastics from water, especially when combined with other materials.
Turning trash into tools: agricultural waste-derived biochars and composites for microplastic removal from wastewater
This review examined the use of agricultural waste-derived biochars and biochar composites as sustainable sorbents for microplastic removal from wastewater. Researchers summarised how engineered biochars produced from crop residues and other agricultural biowaste can be functionalized to achieve efficient microplastic remediation, offering a circular economy approach to both waste valorisation and pollution control.
Biochar Applications for Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Management
This review examines the applications of biochar in sustainable agriculture and environmental management, covering its use as a soil amendment to address emerging pollutants such as microplastics and pharmaceutical waste, reduce salinity and drought stress, and sequester carbon. The review synthesizes research on how biochar feedstock type and thermal conversion technique influence its physicochemical properties and effects on soil microbial communities and nutrient cycling.
Environment and Technology as the Foundation of Indonesia’s Sustainable Development
This book chapter examines environment and technology as foundational pillars of Indonesia's sustainable development following the COVID-19 pandemic, covering topics from microplastics and persistent organic pollutants to smart food systems and digital governance. The chapter provides an overarching framework for the 19-chapter volume addressing Indonesia's post-pandemic recovery trajectory.
Potential Role of Biochar on Capturing Soil Nutrients, Carbon Sequestration and Managing Environmental Challenges: A Review
This review summarizes how biochar, a charcoal-like material made from plant waste, can improve soil health, capture nutrients, and store carbon. Biochar is also being studied as a tool to absorb pollutants including microplastics from soil and water, making it relevant to efforts to reduce human exposure to plastic contamination in agriculture and the food chain.
Innovative strategies for microplastic mitigation in wastewater: The role of biochar-based composites
This book chapter reviewed biochar-based composites as innovative materials for removing microplastics from wastewater, highlighting biochar's high surface area, porous structure, and adsorption capacity. The authors evaluated current limitations of conventional wastewater treatment and argued for proactive development of biochar composites as a supplementary removal strategy.
Challenges in safe environmental applications of biochar: identifying risks and unintended consequence
This review examines the overlooked risks of biochar, a charcoal-like material often added to soil for environmental benefits. When biochar breaks down, it can release pollutants including microplastics, heavy metals, and other harmful chemicals into the environment. The authors stress that the environmental and health risks of biochar need careful evaluation before it is widely used in agriculture and land management.
Advancing modified biochar for sustainable agriculture: a comprehensive review on characterization, analysis, and soil performance
This review covers how biochar, a carbon-rich material made from organic waste, can be modified to improve soil health and crop growth. While not directly about microplastics, modified biochar has been studied as a potential tool for absorbing and immobilizing microplastics in contaminated soil. Understanding how to optimize biochar properties could help develop strategies for reducing microplastic uptake by food crops.
Biochar as a Green Sorbent for Remediation of Polluted Soils and Associated Toxicity Risks: A Critical Review
This review examines biochar, a charcoal-like material made from organic waste, as a tool for cleaning up soil contaminated with heavy metals and organic pollutants. While biochar can effectively trap contaminants, the production process itself can create toxic byproducts like PAHs that may harm soil life. The research is relevant to microplastic pollution because biochar is being explored as a potential method to bind and reduce microplastic contamination in agricultural soils.
Environmental and Economic Evaluation of Biochar Application in Wastewater and Sludge Treatment
This chapter reviews how biochar — a carbon-rich material made from organic waste — can remove microplastics, heavy metals, and organic pollutants from wastewater and sludge. Biochar is presented as a cost-effective and environmentally friendly treatment option compared to conventional technologies.
Biochar for agronomy, animal farming, anaerobic digestion, composting, water treatment, soil remediation, construction, energy storage, and carbon sequestration: a review
Researchers reviewed the wide-ranging uses of biochar — a charcoal-like material made from burning organic waste — across farming, wastewater treatment, construction, and energy storage as a climate-friendly, multipurpose material. Key findings include that biochar improves livestock gut health, boosts biogas production, and can be incorporated into concrete, making it a promising tool for a circular, lower-carbon economy.
Microplastic Removal from Wastewater Using Biochar Based Composite
This book chapter describes how biochar-based composites can be used as adsorbents for removing microplastics from wastewater, reviewing the mechanisms of plastic particle capture and the performance of biochar materials compared to conventional treatment approaches.
Conclusions and General Recommendations Regarding Environment and Technology as the Foundation for National Development
This concluding book chapter synthesizes recommendations on environment and technology as foundations for Indonesia's sustainable national development following the COVID-19 pandemic, covering topics from microplastics and persistent organic pollutants to smart food supply chains and digital governance. Researchers compiled insights across 19 chapters addressing waste management, membrane technology, biochar, food security, and public services.
Smart Food Supply Chain: Recommendations after COVID-19 Pandemic in Agricultural Industry
This chapter examines recommendations for smart food supply chain transformation in Indonesia's agricultural industry following the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on lessons about supply chain resilience exposed by the pandemic's disruptions. The piece is part of a broader edited volume exploring how technology and environmental management can support Indonesia's post-pandemic development across agriculture, transportation, soil management, and related sectors.
Impacts of Textile Dyes on Health and the Environment and Its Remediation
This book chapter examines the health and environmental impacts of textile dyes and reviews remediation strategies as part of Indonesia's post-pandemic waste and pollution management development. The chapter situates textile dye remediation alongside membrane technology, biochar industry, and microplastic management within a broader national development outlook.
Advances and prospects of biochar in improving soil fertility, biochemical quality, and environmental applications
This review examines how biochar, a charcoal-like material made from organic waste, can improve soil health and clean up pollutants including microplastics. Biochar's ability to absorb and trap contaminants makes it a promising tool for reducing microplastic pollution in agricultural soil. The findings suggest biochar could help limit the amount of microplastics that enter the food chain through crops grown in contaminated soil.